Submissions and Letters

Submissions closed on Friday 21 June - thank you to all who contributed.The Qld Government proposes to hand over responsibility for managing flying fox roosts to local councils. We oppose this plan and prepared a paper, which you can still view by clicking HERE.

We provided this document to help people who wanted to make a submission, but did not have the time to build one from scratch. Although submissions are now closed, we are leaving this up for a few days for anyone who is interested.Click HERE for a list of additional dot points that further explained why the proposal would likely make the situations even worse for bats - and for people.

For details of the Department of Environment & Heritage Protection proposal click on this link.

General Submissions

The following are some of the submissions (recent and otherwise) which have been made in relation to the issue of shooting (and also electrocution) of bats for crop protection. We provide them here to help and/or reference if you intend writing your own submission: